Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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