A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Right now, America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy there now who is redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery - a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.