Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

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

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.