It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Let my enemies devour each other.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Quitting is leading too.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.