I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.