What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.