James Reston

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

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.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.