A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

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

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

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.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

I would rather be respected than elected.

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.