We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

Social peace requires reciprocity.