Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.