He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself.

Thoughtful symmetry in a maze of tortuous confusion, Loving me is a battle, wrought with pain and illusion

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.