Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.