"As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president"

"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?"

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world"

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

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice"

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

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress"

"Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success"

"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion"

"God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive"

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