If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.