If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Secrecy is for losers.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.