When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.