Truman Quotes

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Let me tell you, the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat. And every president since, Democrat and Republican, have stood closely with Israel.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.