A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

— David Pietrusza

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

— David Pietrusza

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flip side of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

— David Pietrusza

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

— David Pietrusza

Eisenhower on LBJ: "He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

— David Pietrusza

Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.

— David Pietrusza

For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

— David Pietrusza

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

— David Pietrusza

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

— David Pietrusza

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, abstractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

— David Pietrusza