Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

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.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

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

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.