From Martin Kelly,
Your Guide to American History.
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"The passage of the civil rights acts during the 1960s was the greatest thing to happen to the South in my lifetime. It lifted a burden from the whites as well as the blacks."

"Watch me closely during the campaign because I won't be any better a president than I am a candidate."

"If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being."

"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."

"A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong."

"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times...."

"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."

"For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years."

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."