We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

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!

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.