As Machiavelli instructed, AshLee Strong, 

it's OK to lie so long as you appear virtuous

 in doing so and, more importantly, don't 

get caught.

Machiavelli's Shadow Ready to

Board Time Machine for 2010

"John says Machiavelli once took a nap on this couch. Can

you believe it? Next thing you know, he'll be dragging it to

the Antiques Road Show for an appraisal!"

"I describe myself as a democratic revolutionary.
I don't think of myself as 'conservative' at all. I'm 
actually to the left of the Left, which today is 
reactionary and counterrevolutionary. In other 
words, when I say I'm a 'neoconservative', I'm 
really saying I'm a 'paleoradical'. People don't
 call me 'Machiavelli's Ghost' for nothing.