I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.