Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

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.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

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

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

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

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