Tom Wicker

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably…

— Tom Wicker

Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a…

— Tom Wicker

Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one…

— Tom Wicker

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

— Tom Wicker

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

— Tom Wicker

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

— Tom Wicker

If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true…

— Tom Wicker

He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that…

— Tom Wicker

It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that…

— Tom Wicker

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

— Tom Wicker