Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.