A man without a vote is man without protection.

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.