The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

As the family goes, so go the children.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

...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.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.