What for me makes people like Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Adams and George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan such extraordinary leaders is that they had integrity through and through. What they were on the inside and what they said on the outside was harmonious. There a lot of people like that. I think that if people try to live a very different personal life not consistent with the role they've assumed as a governor or senator or president, we lose something as a nation.

The President's title, as proposed by the Senate, was the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of. It is a proof the more of the justice of the cha…

Among all our presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more than unitarianism.

He is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of…

I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that…

I wasn't tempted to vote for Bush, but I understand why people did: because he obviously had integrity. It was a terrible kind of integrity, but he does what h…

Despite all the political misery I am confronted with every day, it still is my profound conviction that the very essence of politics is not dirty; dirt is bro…