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.

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.

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

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

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

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.