It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

"I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.