It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.

The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.

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

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.