The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

The mortician interviewing the corpses

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.