Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

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.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

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

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