I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!

I write from my stomach.