I would have made a good pope.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

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

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

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

I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.