To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

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.