The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

Like your job. Love your wife.

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.