It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.