Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.