“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
“It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.”
“We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”
“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”
“The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.”
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”
“We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will.”
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out”
“Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.”
“We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!”
“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”
“I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.”
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
“I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.”
“We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.”