I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
