Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

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

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 Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.