When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

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

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

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

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.