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

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.

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.

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

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

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.

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