Genius is sorrow's child.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.