When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Thomas P. O'Neill

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley