Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.