He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin