I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

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

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.