To be undecided in this elect ion is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés the first prize.

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.