Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.