Quotes by William K. David

“He who marries the spirit of the age will soon become a widower.”

“Interactions between the national and state governments are characterized by interdependence, which necessitates the development of cooperative, mutually beneficial arrangements between “working partners” to make federalism “work” (Sundquist and Davis 1969). But American shared governance is not always a smooth relationship, rather it is “an uneasy partnership” in which negative power to veto each other’s actions has to be taken into account in policy implementation (Williams 1980: 44).””

“Jahre später, als James Jesus Angleton und William K. Harvey – zwei Legenden der US-Gegenspionage – nach Attentätern suchten, um den kubanischen Führer Fidel Castro zu töten, holten sie sich Rat bei einem britischen Kollegen namens Peter Wright. »Haben Sie daran gedacht, an Stephenson heranzutreten?«, fragte Wright. »Viele der alten Hasen sagen, er habe solche Sachen während des Kriegs in New York gemacht.«22””