1. “There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”
2. “You can’t get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.”
3. “America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.”
4. “Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.”
5. “The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we’ve been producing is footnotes.”
6. “Politics in America is binding secular religion.”
7. “When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.”
8. “The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.”
9. “Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.”
10. “If you make a living, if you earn your on money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.”
11. “There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it’s wonderful.”
12. “Power in America today is control of the means of communication.”
13. “He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.”
14. “I class myself as a manual laborer.”
15. “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.”
