I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.