Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?