I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

“No comment” is a splendid expression. I’m using it again and again.

Americans will always do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.