The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.