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The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment. (crisis)
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. (elections)
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. (failure)
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time. (freedom)
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard. (government)
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. (music)
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. (medicine)
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. (prejudice)
I played by the rules of politics as I found them. (politicians and poli)
I am not a crook. (politicians and poli)
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely. (moon)
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs. (negotiation)
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up. (politicians and poli)
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. (peace)
When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. (president)
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. (self-image)
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. (public)
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. (public office)
The sky is no longer the limit. (space)
If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world? (america)
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. (conflict)
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