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

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 liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

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

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.