There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign..

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind..

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful..

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can pe….

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose..

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether i….

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in ….

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by ….

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend..

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too..

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people a….

I class myself as a manual laborer..

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy..

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward..

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any pe….

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at hi….

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I….

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion ….

Power in America today is control of the means of communication..

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy..

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television..