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

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

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

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

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.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

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.