“The fabulous Eva, Government Glad-Hand Girl No. 1 of the extravagant political novelette that is Argentina.”

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)

Introduction
An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians (1792)
Context: In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.

The Green Book (1975), Letter to Barack Obama

"The Price Of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue And Prosperity," w:Good Reads, https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/17083930-the-price-of-civilization-reawakening-american-virtue-and-prosperity

Original French: La plus extravagante idée qui puisse naître dans la tête d'un politique est de croire qu'il suffise à un peuple d'entrer à main armée chez un peuple étranger, pour lui faire adopter ses lois et sa constitution. Personne n'aime les missionnaires armés; et le premier conseil que donnent la nature et la prudence, c'est de les repousser comme des ennemis.
Sur la guerre (1ère intervention), a speech to the Jacobin Club (2 January 1792)

[The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, Paul Michael Green, Melvin G. Holli, Southern Illinois University Press, 1995, 144, ISBN 0809319616]
An ofttimes repeated maxim of Daley's to describe his view on the inseparability of politics and government.

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 9

From "The Penitent", A Few Figs from Thistles (1922) <!-- Not sure whether this appears in the 1920 edition. -->

Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 13, p. 223