“You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.”

“Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.”

“We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.”

“They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.”

“What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”

“You'll understand the meaning in time. It's like a chemical -- you put it out there and the reaction that it creates is what art is.”