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

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.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

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

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

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.

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