I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

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.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.