It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

There is a limit to what you can do in politics.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.