If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Like all successful politicians I married above myself.
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