Zitat des Tages von Theodore White:
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
I class myself as a manual laborer.
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
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.
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
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.
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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.