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I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.