Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.