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.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.