Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

Destiny is always dark.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.