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.

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.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

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.

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

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