"I despise people who can't make up their minds."

"I'm not going to sit here and tell you that everything is going to be alright. But I am going to tell you that we will do our best."

"There's no point in being a pessimist, it won't work."

"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."

"I tell you, the people of this country are more concerned with their pocketbooks than they are with any highfalutin' international policy."