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.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

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

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.