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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

He loved politicians - even Republicans.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.