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Theodore H White
It was like...
It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting...
Politics in America...
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Source: In Time, 29 Dec...
I happen to...
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but...
When that book...
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and...
The best time...
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's...
Generally students are...
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and...
His passion has...
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the...
A liberal is...
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes...
He is like...
He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several...
He who is...
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
Source: Television...
I'd get into...
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting...
When a reporter...
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
Source: In...
I, alas, must...
I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a...
Those 40 or...
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into...
The flood of...
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
The gusto of...
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the...
With the end...
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
With electricity we...
With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set [and] with enough...
When the bus...
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon...
Whether a man...
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it;...