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

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

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

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