I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government