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.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

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

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

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.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.