“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”

“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.”

“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”

“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.”

“He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.”

“The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.”

“I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.”