Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.

I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

I am such a big fan of Batman.

I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.