It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

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

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.