I will offer a choice, not an echo.

History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige