I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

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

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.

In your heart you know he's right.

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

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.