John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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 what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.Without them, we are empty.

You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see.

That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.

I think kissing scenes always feel awkward but there's just no way around it. But it's a part of the job.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.