America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Less government in business and more business in government.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.