You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.