Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.