I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.