I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.