Chance meeting Quote by Joe Biden

“Humphrey had even visited the CASPER facility on multiple occasions under the cover of darkness during vacations at the Greenbrier. In 1970, after his…

— Garrett M. Graff

“Nixon quickly laid Golda’s fears to rest. Despite reams of memoranda from his staff warning him not to succumb to the Israeli prime minister’s…

— Elinor Burkett

“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang on to…

— Robert A. Caro

“Future presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts were members of the committee. The committee’s chief counsel…

— Charles Brandt

“The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a…

— Joe Biden

“The Democratic convention that took place in Chicago in late August turned out to be such a wild and bloody affair that the first-ballot…

— James T. Patterson

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got…

— Mark Steyn

Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing…

— Rick Perlstein

“It’s the Munich of the Republic Party,” said Senator Barry Goldwater.”

— Mike Colapietro Roger Stone

“Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.”

— Robert Littell

“Let's throw his ass out the airlock," suggested the Speaker of the House. "We can't do that," said the Chief Justice of the Supreme…

— Bruce Sterling

I remember, as a kid, nothing struck me funnier than seeing Richard Nixon look into the camera and sincerely tell everyone he didn't know…

— Martin Short