You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

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.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.