If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his… — Tom Wicker Copy Share
Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political… — Tom Wicker Copy Share
Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate… — Tom Wicker Copy Share
There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength. — Tom Wicker Copy Share
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. — Tom Wicker Copy Share
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of… — Tom Wicker Copy Share
He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even… — Tom Wicker Copy Share
It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most… — Tom Wicker Copy Share
