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

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

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.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

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.