With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.