Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind.Or not to have a mind. How true that is.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

I love money because I've earned it.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

Yeah, I'm insensitive. So is life. DEAL with it.

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

We were over-whelming underdogs.