Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

He who refuses to obey cannot command.

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.