Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

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

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.