"The fastest way for a politician to..." - Quote by Earl Wilson

“If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.”

“Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.”

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

“No party is as bad as its leaders.”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

“The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us,the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.”

“Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.”

“My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes”

“I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.”