If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.