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

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.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

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

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

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.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.