Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

I can't hide my feelings.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.