Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.