The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

For all its pro-democracy rhetoric, the West rolled over to military coups in Egypt and Thailand.

When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law affecting all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American territories, but our federal government stopped being sensible a very long time ago.

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.