There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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!

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Screw sharks a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat me.

Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.