Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!