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

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.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

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

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

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.