Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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

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

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.

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

The mortician interviewing the corpses