A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.