I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

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.'

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

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

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.