I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

Study men, not historians.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.