Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

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!

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.

The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master.

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.