When parties talk about the cost of applying the railway system to the docks, it would be well for them to consider the cost of not applying it. […] How large an amount of expense is now incurred for cartage and porterage which might be saved by the employment of a different system?

“[…] I find out that I got Viola Lake under contract for the next five years, no matter what she does; and now I have to learn that she's gone and got herself addicted to nose candy! Oi Gewalt! If I had any hair, I’d tear it!”

uncork a bottle of wine

Senate confirmation hearings are a real meatgrinder, discouraging people from government service.