Anthony Lewis

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief. ”

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. ”

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy. ”

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity. ”

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment. ”

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist. ”

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns. ”

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path. ”

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. ”

Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest. ”