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

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

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.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

The mortician interviewing the corpses