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A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
I class myself as a manual laborer.
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
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.
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.
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.
Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile ...
The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
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.
