When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

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 status quo is working.

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

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

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

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.