People who stand in the "middle-of-the-road" get run over.

There are two parties, the party of the past and the party of the future; the establishment ... and the movement.

Think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-olds, and you'll understand how totally, morally bankrupt the modern Democratic Party is.

No guts, no glory.

If you're dumb, you lose!

That is a very stupid question, and it's stupid for you to ask that question.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

There are no limits on our future if we don't put limits on our people.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out for themselves.

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

In America, every day is a new beginning, every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.

Anyone with a lick of sense knows you can't make good barbecue and comply with the health code.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

You think I don't have culture just because I'm from Georgia. Believe me, we got culture. We've always had sushi. We just used to call it bait.

Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

The southerner talks music.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

The true role of management is to make risk-taking possible. Executives can't order their staffs to be creative--they have to provide the conditions where creativity flourishes. Such conditions include strong staff morale, the feeling that someone is listening and the conviction that good work will be rewarded.

The greatest danger to liberty comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

A leader knows what's best to do: a manager knows merely how best to do it.

The words "penalty, restrict, and violate" appeared more times in President Clinton's health care bill than in his crime bill.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented--human liberty.

Football has two of the worst features of American life: violence separated by committee meetings.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

Paper work is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

Its incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover its leaning against the wrong wall.

Traitorous Quotes That Should Be Remembered

I would think if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.

My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

We have no reason to believe that US Air Force officers tell the truth. The are professional killers.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

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