Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

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

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.