One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.