Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

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.

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 class myself as a manual laborer.

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

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