“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you’re going to write before you die.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.