You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.