Listen more often than you speak.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.