If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

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 best things about humans is their ability to love.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.