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

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

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.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

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

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

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