"Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice."

"The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House."

"I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."