Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.