I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.