"We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around."

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

"I'm not afraid of the future. I'm just afraid of what they're going to do to it."

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose—somehow we always win out."