The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.