It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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!

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.