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

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

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.

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.

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

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.