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.

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

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

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

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.