I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.