Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.

I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.

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

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

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.