"I refuse to be a political corpse."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."

"The future of America is in its schools. The future of America is in its children."

"Let me say this about the White House. It's a great place to live, it's a great place to work, but it's not a great place to die."