How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.