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 class myself as a manual laborer.

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.

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.

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.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.