James Reston quotes:

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

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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