You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.