"An honest politician is an oxymoron...." - Quote by Mark Twain

“A man may have no bad habits and have worse”

“An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.”

“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.”

“Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.”

“We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.”

“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.”

“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.”