A Quote for Sunday

Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) was a prominent newspaper journalist and editor, in fact the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Here's a famous comment of his that could serve as the explanation for why things like health care reform never seem to be accomplished:

“I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure-
which is: "Try to please everybody”