Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.