Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

The mortician interviewing the corpses

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.