I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.
