“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

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.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.