The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

I would have made a good pope.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.