Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

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

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow ye diet.

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

Family matters should be that and stay in the family.