Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Thank God kids never mean well.

I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or s…

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Both constructs of the aphorism hold true. But, because it is an American convention to adore common people without restriction, I elect here to criticize them…

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests…