Never answer a question from a farmer.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
The President is the people's lobbyist.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
