There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.