I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.