I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.