In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.