I was trying to tell the commission that the issue had not been really defined well enough to be ready for the president.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.