It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Justice is a jagged road.