The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.