Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.
I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.
I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.
I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
I had made my reputation on integrity.
I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.
I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.
In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.
You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.
