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

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

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

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.

He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.