To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.