Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

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.

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!

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.”“Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.