Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

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.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

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.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.