Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.