Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

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.

...Thought lengths it, pulls an invisible world through a needle's eye one detail at a time, ...

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

The most beautiful part is the traveling, and getting to know different cultures and different types of people and to perform in very, very important venues in each country.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Love is an infinite sky!

Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.