It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

I would rather be respected than elected.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.