McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.