In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

I'm tired of chasing people.

About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.