Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

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.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

With the pursuit of faith, I am a free soul.

This scripture is saying that you will always have bread and water on your table

If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

I don't care what you think of Michael Vick - whether you think he's being mistreated or misused, or just think he's not that good, whatever. He can play for my team any day

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.