Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

Happiness is a joyful gratitude.

The Christmas memories you make this year will be the ones you remember in the years to come.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.