All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time

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?

A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.