“Ted Kennedy’s achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.”

There’s a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It’s really gone too far. I don’t know an easy way to turn it back.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I’m used to doing.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times’ chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Another thing that’s quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you’ve written the next morning and you think you didn’t get it quite right, you can fix it.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.

At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.