America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty-- the only one. People went to America to be free.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

I have a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves.

If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I don't mind how much my ministers talk as long as they do what I say.

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

It pays to know the enemy, not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Of course, it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.