“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.”

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”

We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day.

Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.