I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is
It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting ""go right"" and ""go left"" at the same time.