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

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.