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

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.

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

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.