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.

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

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.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

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

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