Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

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

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.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.