"It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true."

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full."

"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."

"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy."

"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."

"Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites."

"Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so."

"PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting, ... If PeopleSoft's Board is so convinced that the J.D. Edwards acquisition is a great deal, why won't it let their shareholders vote on it?"

"I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one."

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"I don't think we'll win every election."

"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"Republicans are good at standing by their candidate."

"In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon."

"How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution."

"Experience has shown that the commission works best when the U.S. is a full, voting member,"

"noted that President Bush has consistently pursued a diplomatic approach, despite North Korean threats and steps in the wrong direction."

"There were numerous, reliable accounts of irregularities in today's voting. The world is watching these elections and the response of the authorities in Belgrade very closely."

"It's very, very important to continue moving toward open elections, clean elections, next year. The secretary made that quite clear."