One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

Don't be soo afraid to fall, that you don't even chase for success.

If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono.

It is actually a very good thing, if after eight years of coverage the president of the United States [Barack Obama] says that this is a cooperation based on friendship that we cooperated well.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.