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

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

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.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.