Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.

Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.