Mark Twain's Hat in the Ring

Foreign Policy: It is easier to stay out than get out.

Crime: Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

The Economy: The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Defense: An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Politics: All the talk used to be about doing people good, now it is about doing people.

Education: In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.

Congress: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.