In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.