Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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!

I don't like to meet with people smiles, I always like to meet with the pain of people.

If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.

I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

The choice you make, makes you.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.