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

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

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.

On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.'

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.