What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

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.

Fpr years I thought we were on the same page... then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!

See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.