“Professional liberals are too arrogant to compromise. In my experience, they were also very unpleasant people on a personal level. Behind their slogans about saving the world and sharing the wealth with the common man lurked a nasty hunger for power. They’d double-cross their own mothers to get it or keep it.”

- Harry S Truman, pp. 55, American Heritage 7/8 1992, from a 1970 interview -

"But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap."

"This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that."

"Our source was the New York Times."