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

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

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

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.

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.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

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