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

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

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

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

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!