I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.