If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.