Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more….

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet..

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future..

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus wit….

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….

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

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

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 ….

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 ….

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

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….

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..