Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.