You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

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

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

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