The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the countryside for a weekend, if we looked for a motel to stay in we had to see if it said "restricted" on it. "Restricted" meant no Jews.