“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”

“Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...”

“Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.”

“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”

“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.”

“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...”

“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”

“A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.”

“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”

“Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.”

“There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.”