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.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

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

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

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.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.