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

“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.”

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

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

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

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

“This trip was not about running for president. This trip was preparing to BE president.”