Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

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

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.

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

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.

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