The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

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

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

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

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

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.