The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

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

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

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

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