It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes out anybody who doesn't conform to its own standards....The ax falls, ecumenically, on the head of anybody...who doesn't share this group's parochial preoccupations.

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education-the Bourbon and Branch Water College of Congressional Knowledge.

He loved politicians - even Republicans.

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.