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.

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

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.

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

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

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.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.