I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

I never even had the time to read novels.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.