America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

American public policy is run on a myth.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.