Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

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