There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.