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

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

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

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

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

Secrecy is for losers.

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.