Well, Adam, it's my guess that the old-fashioned political campaign in a few years will be as extinct as the dodo. It'll be all TV... and radio, it'll all be streamlined and nice and easy. Oh mind you, I use the TV and the radio sometimes, but I also get out into the wards. I speak in arenas, armories, street corners--anywhere I can gather a crowd. I even kiss babies. But that's the way I've always done it, and I must say it's usually paid off. But there's no use kidding myself about it. It's on its way out, just as I am. Yes, yes, this is my last campaign, Adam, the last hurrah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to... ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the c...alm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basket...ball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »