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

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.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.