Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

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!

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

In the future history will be made only by us.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.