“So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would...” — Michael Beschloss Quote

“So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.”

“The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.”

“The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.”

“At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.”

“On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.”

“Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.”