The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

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.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

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

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.