Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

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

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

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.

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