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.

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.

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.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Being in love doesn't mean loving.

You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.

Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.