I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.

On Undecided Voter s: "To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chick en? " she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke n glass in it?