John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

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!

Tell the story of your life with grace and candor. Sharing your wisdom helps others and delivers deep satisfaction.

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.