I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.
Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet. . . nattering nabobs of negativism.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.