It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!