So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

The status quo is working.

As the family goes, so go the children.

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

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'