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

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

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.

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

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

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

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.