"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

"I am ready to die, but I am not ready to surrender."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they've tried everything else."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."