I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

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.

One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.

I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!