America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.