“The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,”

“People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy”

“He not only had the gift of reading men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they fe...”

“The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward”

“With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins”

“He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.”

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past...”

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself aliv...”

“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”

“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”