No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

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

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

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

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

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.