We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.