Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.