It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
Politics is not an exact science.
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
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