Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

At 23 I thought I knew everything, by 33 I realised I knew nothing.

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

Divine mind is the one and only reality.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.