A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.