You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.