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

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.

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.

In order to build a system of values you need time and persistence

I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

The most able seems clumsy.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.