You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.
From Richard Ben Cramer
Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.
I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?
I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.
We strove for more than 60 years to give Joe DiMaggio the hero's life. From his debut at Yankee Stadium in 1936 until his death in 1999, DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.
People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.
The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.
Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.
After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.
The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.
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