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.

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

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

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

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