The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.