“A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.”

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”

To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.

You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

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.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

We hadn’t lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it’s tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting – our shoulders square, our lipstick on – because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.

I think I’m getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.