22 Quotes by Thomas P. O'Neill

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

All politics is local.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.

I think the speaker of the House in Congress should be like the Massachusetts speaker: all-powerful. He should appoint committee chairmen and remove them if they stray from the party line. He should be answerable only to the caucus, which can remove him at any time. I'd throw the seniority system out on its ear in Congress.

The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.

I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to resign would be unbearable. I know that Republicans see 50 House seats flying out the window in 1974.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.