Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.