For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.