Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays fo...
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
The party at its best has always been a modern party.
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
My ideas aren't afraid of height.
