A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.