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

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

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

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.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.