Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.