The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

Great things can be accomplished, if we passionately pursue our goals and dreams.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you're wearing.

Salvation is God's way of making us real people.