When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.

Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.