Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Donald Trump is perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.

Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.