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.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.

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 pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.