During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.