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.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

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.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.