The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.

In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.

Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.