I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

An actor cannot and must not become more important than the story.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.