Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding

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.

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?