Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.

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".

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

Acting courageously is about knowing and making the right choices based on a deep conviction that dwarfs fear, doubt, and worry.

May I love Him whom to love is to live indeed.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.