The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.