This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.