Mayors are judged by results.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn't decided yet.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Don't take things for granted.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

Lincoln believed in the American people.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?