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

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

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

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

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.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.