Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

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

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

American public policy is run on a myth.

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.