Facts are stupid things.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it move, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it,

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx or Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take chances.

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.