I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice.