If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

There is some risk involved in the action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than the mind.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence