I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

My tactic is to make eyes at someone.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.