There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause /it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

We're puzzled because the president has made a major part of his economic program an ownership society. What we are doing every day is helping people open businesses and grow their businesses.

I received a letter from Harrisburg that there might be a little hold-up because the historical society didn't approve something with the renovation,

American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have allowed ourselves to forget. I was visiting a high school, Seward High School, in 1987, and one of the students in the classroom thought that slavery had ended in 1960. He was very serious about it.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong...