Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.