“Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.”

I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.

In your heart you know he’s right.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

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.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

Most sound people don’t get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.

I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.