The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

The way to have power is to take it.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

God wants the church to become an authority to bring order, righteousness and purity to the country

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.