As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

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.

It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises.

COVERT CONVERTIf you don't believe in God, then believe in the hidden camera

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

If Allah has willed it that way... He must have better plans for you child...

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

Everything interests me.

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.