All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.