...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.

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

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

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.

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

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.