When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. – Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. – Herbert Hoover
Fishing is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish. – Herbert Hoover
Im the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. – Herbert Hoover
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey