There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.