I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known into the forest of the unknown, illuminated by the glow of the elves.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

America has defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend its own.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.