“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, i...”

“Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the Am...”

“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”

“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”

“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

“There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stra...”

“If its reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.”

“Reality is how you look at it”

“I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.”

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

“It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.”

“If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy.”