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 am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.