Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.

The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.