Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

The stress stops here

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.