James Reston

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.