Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Some of the most memorable moments I've had is to have my family along - who are our greatest ambassadors for peace. Politics will never bring peace, but people will.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.