No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

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