Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?