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

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

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.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

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

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

The status quo is working.