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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

The future will be better tomorrow.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.