I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.

The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.