I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

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.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

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