"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important"

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians"

"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"