When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

This is a campaign that is spiraling downward by the minute.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.