I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.