There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.