This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every country

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves

Republicans sleep in twin beds - some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats

The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults