The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.