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

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

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.

As the family goes, so go the children.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.