Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.