I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.