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.
Theodore WhiteI happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore White