I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

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.

Have you no sense of decency, sir?

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.