There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

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

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

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

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

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.