Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.