Theodore White

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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