Quotes
In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.
I am confident that with the wholesome character of our American people, justice will prevail and liberty will endure.
Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
All Senators should aspire to be role models, and to the extent that people who have led the American dream, modern-day Horatio Algers stories should be an added plus to all their intellect, capabilities, and experiences.
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.