There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset.

Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.