You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

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!

Turns out ovaries work just as good as balls when you're in the driver's seat.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.