“I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.”

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.

It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.

To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.

I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.

The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.

As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you’re supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.