My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.