My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Knowledge (Gnan) is not attained first first the ego departs.

To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They'll never get to be swans

Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

I have sold my soul to the devil.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

I like high impact movies.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.