Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

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.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

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

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.

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