The stress stops here

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

When all else fails, look cute.

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.