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.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.