A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.