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

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.