It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting to be reported.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

"When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella."

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 exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.