Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

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

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.