"If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'"

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals."

"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?"

"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'"

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."