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

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

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.

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.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

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

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