Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.