The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

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

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

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