"The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally"

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets"

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses"

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress"

"I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility"

"I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people"