Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.