My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.