Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.