Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

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.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.

I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.