“When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”