Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

If you really want people to like you, just stop lying.

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.