Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.