In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one.

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.

Eisenhower on LBJ: "He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.

Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true.

Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.

A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

Getting into television was a total fluke.