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

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

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.

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

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

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.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.