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.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

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

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

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

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.

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.