The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

The seed of revolution is repression.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Example is leadership.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.