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

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

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.