The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

History is the memory of States.

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.