"There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren..."
- David Pietrusza
"Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling t..."
"The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha"."
"Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative."
"What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin"
"In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreal..."
"A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand"
"Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding"
"Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt."
"The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge"