I do not promise to work miracles.

I do not, like your conventional candidates, talk in platitudes.

I do not undertake to achieve a regeneration of politics out of unregenerate human nature.

As long as we have cherries we shall have blackbirds; as long as we have politics we shall have politicians.

I acknowledge the good and the bad, and all that I promise is to get as good results as I can out of the mixture.