"The greatest danger to American institutions is the man who thinks he knows it all."

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

"There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have some colored blood in them. They have been discriminated against and I am going to see that that is stopped."

"I have practically given up on the human race."

"A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years."