One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

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!

When you live by understanding, you will not be fooled any longer

Without making the best of yourself, your life expression remains incomplete.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

Buff Bagwell ain't nothin' but a chippendale dancer!

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.