If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

God put us on this carnival ride, We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

If I do marry I want it to be for love

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.