Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.