So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]