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American - Journalist May 6, 1915 - May 15, 1986

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

Politics Money Democracy Today

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

Water Believe Someone Free

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Myself Class Laborer Manual

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.

Best Rain Time Night

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

Friends Beginning November Some

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Money You Free Your

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.

Politics Think Happen American

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Best Man Passion Kitchen

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Politics End Behind Process

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Politics Religion America Secular

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Best Men Thoughts Reality

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

Book America Like About

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Men Time Moment Voice

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Nobody Room Now Get

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

Night New Soldiers Own

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Television Who He Destroyed

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

Nobody Friend Down He

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Copy Your Say Wonderful

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

War World Short American

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Communication Today Power Control

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Quality Intelligence Grace Live

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