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

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

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.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

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