Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.