This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few