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

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

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.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

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.

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.