In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.