This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.