appraisal quotes

A real Centaurpart man, part horse's ass. A rough appraisal, but curiously true.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Of President  Johnson.13  Apr.

A journalist ishardlyanauthorityuponanythingunless perhapsupontheappraisal of the drift of public opinion.

-JohnW Dafoe
  Convocation address at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May. Quoted in Murray Donnelly Dafoe of the Free Press (1968).