"To stare into that, you can't actually think that you could ever sort it out.
Mr Clinton won without ever sorting out the organisational and ideological divisions within the Democratic Party, which still haunt him.
The longer things stay in a binary Us-and-Them tussle, the smaller the chances of us ever sorting the mess politics is in now".
You might think that would be impossible to do in Los Angeles, a landscape far too huge, too varied, too dizzying to ever sort out.
Editors are busier than ever sorting through citizen offerings of earthquakes, tornadoes, riots and, of course, dogs dressed up for St . Patricks Day, and then confirming the veracity of those from politicized situations.
If the governments of these countries ever sort out their differences, the route from Addis Ababa to Asmara via Lalibela's rock churches and the Simien Mountains would be one of the continent's great road trips.
No one can ever sort these things out for certain, but with fewer sick patients on the ward, the nurses said later, perhaps they could have kept a better eye on him and alerted doctors to trouble ahead.
"I don't think I would ever sort out the micropolitics — or that it really needs it," he told me when I described my excursion, and he said, "I see it more as just a we-give-them-opportunity, we-give-them-jobs, we-may-end-up-saving-Canda-and-losing-Sadjunjira sort of thing".
Do you think there's ever sort of a legitimate reason to tell a secret, to expose secrets like this? Presidents and Administrations have the option of declassifying stuff, and that happens quite a bit.
