Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

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.

You seek to torment. But I am not a witch. Trial me

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

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.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

I'll note you in my book of memory.