In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda-makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay.

Quellcrist Falconer, Things I Should Have Learnt by Now, Volume II

"If 2006 has taught us anything, it's that 2012 is 2006 on steroids, minus steroids, in 2003."