Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.