If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

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!

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

We're not going to have you burdening the health system.

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

The aim of living is life itself.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.