A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Study men, not historians.