Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.