"If ever I attempt to make foreign policy, basic foreign policy, a partisan issue, I wish one of you people would remind me very forcefully."
"I think there will be some little things they can take care of; I mean little in volume, important in the individual cases."
"I believe that America’s success, therefore, over these last 2 years in that foreign field, and at home in going from a war to a peace economy without real depression—which has been customary and hist..."
"No, I can’t."
"I don’t know why there is apathy."
"I have nothing to announce, no speeches to make, at least unless provoked. [Laughter]"
"Indeed I have. It is nothing in the world but an effort to get the best kind of people applying for governmental service that you can get, to get the White House out of the channel, so far as possible..."
"In the average case, the normal case, for the Associate Justices, I should think it would be a good practice to bring in people who have had real experience on the courts."
"Well, you base your whole question on a statement that you say appears to be a Republican attitude at the moment."
"As a matter of fact, I probably, if I had anything to do with it, would discipline the person that gave you the copy, if I knew them."
"Our people have once again demonstrated their social maturity and their determination to have in America fair play and equal opportunity."