Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

Negative politics have always been around.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.