“Common sense ain’t common.”

No man is great if he thinks he is.

I never met a man I didn’t like.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’

You must judge a man’s greatness by how much he will be missed.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.