One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
“I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.”
“I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.”