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

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

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

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

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.

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.