I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture of deference, whereas in the 70s we really are in a time of angry transition. The generation that came into young adulthood in the 70s couldn't find jobs; that wasn't true in my generation. They entered a time when two depressing things hit them both at the same time.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.