It sure is hell to be president.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

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

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

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."

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.