A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.