I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

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

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

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

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