Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

I believe I am an honorable man.