Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.