Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

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

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

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

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.