“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.”
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“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.”
“America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.”
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”
“You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.”
“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.”
“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.”
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?”
“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”
“If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.”
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.”
“If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.”
“The secret of getting things done is to act!”
“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”
“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.”
“As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”
“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
“Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.”
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”