If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

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.

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

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