“He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.”

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

“I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966.”

“Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.”

“It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.”

“In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.”

“Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority.”