My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.
My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule—first thing every morning—it said Intelligence Briefing.
It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.