Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.