I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

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

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

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

I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.