“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.”

“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”

“What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.”

“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“Voters quickly forget what a man says.”

“Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.”

“Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.”

“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”

“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”