Great Throughts Treasury

"It is often much more difficult to learn from victory than from defeat. In defeat, questions are asked abut what went wrong, so that those mistakes will not be made in the future. But victory seldom creates the need to inquire as to its sources."

"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."

"Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored."

"The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off."

"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."

"There was no Democratic leader telling the American people the truth about how the war in Iraq is absorbing so many resources it's making our country more vulnerable and less secure.”"

"What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable."

"This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco."

"You can get awful famous in this country in seven days."