A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.

And after I make a lot of money, I’ll be able to afford running for office.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.

A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.