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

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.

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

All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.