The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Source: In NY Times, 5 Jan 69
-- Theodore H White, (May 6 1915-1986), US historian, author; He looks at American presidential politics, 1956 through 1980 in America in Search of Itself, 1986.