If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

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

The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

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

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

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.