I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

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.

Live like you were dying, Love because you are.

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual’s right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.