Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.

If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.