He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest'cause You know just how far the east is from the westFrom one scarred hand to the other

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.