"Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes."

"You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"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?'"

"Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much."

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."

"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."