"I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out."

“Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay”

“You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.”

“Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”

“You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.”

Source : George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.10, Penguin

“I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.”

“Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.”

“The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.”

“These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.”