By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.