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	Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.   
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	The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.   
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	It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.   
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	Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.   
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	Listen more often than you speak.   
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	If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.   
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	In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.   
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	The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.   
