 There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. |
| A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. |
| No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. |
| Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. |
| This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. |
| Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. |
| 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. |
| You aren't learning anything when you're talking. |
| It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. |
| We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. |
| We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. |
| Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. |
| I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. |
| The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. |
| If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. |
| There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. |
| It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. |
| The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. |
| Freedom is not enough. |
| I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. |
