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?

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.