Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.