"Being elected to Congress, though I am..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.”

“The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.”

“It's bad. It's damned bad.”

“The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.”

“Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.”

“In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.”

“Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.”

“Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.”

“Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.”