"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. . . . For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate."
- Walter Cronkite

"That's it. If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
- President Lyndon Johnson

"Sock it to me?"
- Presidential candidate Richard Nixon on the TV show Laugh-In.

"There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats."
- George Wallace

"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., the night before his assassination

"He was worried about our burning things. He said the boardwalk had already been burned out once this year. We told him we wouldn't do anything dangerous - just a symbolic bra burning."
- Robin Morgan, protester at the Miss America Pageant