“Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.”

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].

Although I’m up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.