What I Got Was Not So Much

Here Is An Old Tradition Badly In Need Of Return: You Have To Earn Your Way Into Politics. You Should Go Have A Life, Build A String Of Accomplishments, Then Enter Public Service.

You Don't Have To Be Old In America To Say Of A World You Lived In: 'that World Is Gone.'

One Way To Keep People Close To You Is By Not Giving Them Enough. ... With People Who Give A Lot Of Themselves, You Sometimes Lean Back - But With People Who Give Little You Often Lean Forward, As If They're A Spigot In The Desert And You're The Empty Cup. It Is The Tropism Of Deprivation: We Lean Toward Those Who Do Not Give.

In A President, Character Is Everything. A President Doesn't Have To Be Brilliant... He Doesn't Have To Be Clever; You Can Hire Clever... You Can Hire Pragmatic, And You Can Buy And Bring In Policy Wonks. But You Cant Buy Courage And Decency, You Cant Rent A Strong Moral Sense. A President Must Bring Those Things With Him. He Needs To Have, In That Much Maligned Word, But A Good One Nonetheless, A Vision Of The Future He Wishes To Create.. But A Vision Is Worth Little If A President Doesn't Have The Character - The Courage And Heart - To See It Through.

Wit Penetrates; Humor Envelops. Wit Is A Function Of Verbal Intelligence; Humor Is Imagination Operating On Good Nature.