My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.

Less government in business and more business in government.

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.