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

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

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

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.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

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

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.