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"There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN."

"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor."

"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."

"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education."

"In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party."

"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"

"The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble."

"It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment."
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