What did the president know, and when did he know it?

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

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

Listen more often than you speak.

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

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

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