The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.