Quotes by R. Apple, Jr.

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
• Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
• The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
• Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.