If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.