I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

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!

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.