There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

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

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.

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

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.