Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

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

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

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

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.

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

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