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

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

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

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.

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.

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