These are the qualifications of a good Party man-you must know how to put your Party before yourself, and you must know the occasions when to put nation before Party.

In the twinkling of an eye I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?