"One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring."

"As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking."

"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."

"Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results."

"Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong."

"I take the work seriously, just not myself in it."

"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."