The Senate is an unknowing world

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.