We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

When I was in the third grade, there was a kid running for office. His slogan was: "Vote for me and I'll show you my wee-wee." He won by a landslide.

Don't run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

In politics one must deal with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

If children could vote, Jesse Jackson would be our next president.

The American people did not send us here to bicker.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Politics isn't in my nature.

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.