I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!