[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.