I class myself as a manual laborer.

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.

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.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

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

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

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