There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

It's more like it is now than it ever has been.

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 cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.

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.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.