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

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

The status quo is working.

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

...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.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.