JAMES RESTON

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

From an English perspective King Richard the Lionhearted was not even English. He was French. He grew up in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. He spoke no English.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

I will not have New York Times muck-racking the President of the United States.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

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

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

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

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

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

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

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

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

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

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Saying my President “right or wrong” is like saying my driver “drunk or sober.”

I will not have New York Times muck-racking the President of the United States.

From an English perspective King Richard the Lionhearted was not even English. He was French. He grew up in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. He spoke no English.

Our job [the press] in this age … is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.