The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. – James Russell Lowell

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. – Lyndon B. Johnson