There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.