I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.