America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.