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.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.

Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.