We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn p….

The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these….

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right..

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public….

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable..

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation..

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects ….

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying….

If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liber….

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners..

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner..

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by t….

At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spire….

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow..

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your i….

I'm the most underdog underdog there is..

I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a ….

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them..

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in f….