This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle.

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.