Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.