We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

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.

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode, but you just don't know when.

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

All things are in common among friends.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.