When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses. . . The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
A radical is one who speaks the truth.
Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed
People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.