Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

Maybe we will meet again in the paths of dreaming, but my heart tells me this is farewell.

Am I higher or lower than she? It was always the vital question for Anna: who was superior, and how she could position herself so that she would be perceived as superior?

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life.

Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.