If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Life isn't fair, but government must be.
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.