“Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual.”

“The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.”

“The best politics for any president is to be a good president.”

“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.”

“The development of an image is a mysterious thing: once a public figure has been cast in a public role, it is almost impossible for him to change the character. It is as if someone has assembled personality traits into a convenient pattern, no writer ever re-examines it: it is easier to use the accepted pattern.”

“In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.”

“The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.”