I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.