"Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford."

"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."

"Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are."

"It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to."

"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."

"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

"I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money."