You have to deal with this in political terms, not in economical terms.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

There is an attempt to make a show, a political show, to give the impression that there is a tendency from the Israelis to move in the accurate way.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

There is a great deal of concern about this seeming attempt to couch everything in religious terms. We're not a narrow-minded nation, and at least some of the people trying to define the Republican Party are coming off that way.

American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.