“I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.”

“I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.”

“I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.”

“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.”