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

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 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 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.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.