Robert Kennedy's 1964 Senatorial campaign planners told him that their intention was to present him to the television viewers as a sincere, generous person. "You going to use a double?" asked Kennedy. Thumbing through a promotional pamphlet prep

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.

Men will fuck mud.

The Angels want to wear my red shoes.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

"I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating."

I don't have any use for bodyguards, but I do have a specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

[The members of the Chamberlain government] are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, all-powerful for impotency.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.

And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.

I'd be a poorer man if I'd never seen an eagle fly.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Genius is pain.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

"I understand this is your first dead client," Sabian was saying. The absurdity of the statement made me want to laugh but they don't call me Deadpan Allie and lie.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Dear Mister Language Person: What is the purpose of the apostrophe? Answer: The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHEC

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace.

Too much of everything is just enough.

With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If the Nazis had television with satellite technology, we'd all be goose-stepping. Americans are just as suggestible.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

... why should you waste a single moment of *your* life seeming to be something you don't want to be? Lord, that's so simple. If you hate your job, quit it. If your friends are tedious, go out and find new friends. You are queer, you lucky fool, a

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or sea as much as I used

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.