Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

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

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.