If We Get Into The Mind-set Where

...there Is Simply Nothing So Important To A People And Its Government As How Many Of Them There Are, Whether Their Number Is Growing Or Declining, How They Are Distributed As Between Different Ages, Sexes, And Different Social Classes And Racial And Ethnic Groups, And Again, Which Way These Numbers Are Moving.

Citizen Participation Is A Device Whereby Public Officials Induce Nonpublic Individuals To Act In A Way The Officials Desire.

The Central Conservative Truth Is That It Is Culture, Not Politics, That Determines The Success Of A Society. The Central Liberal Truth Is That Politics Can Change A Culture And Save It From Itself.

There Is One Unmistakable Lesson In American History; A Community That Allows A Large Number Of Young Men To Grow Up In Broken Families, Dominated By Women, Never Acquiring Any Stable Relationship To Male Authority, Never Acquiring Any Set Of Rational Expectations About The Future - That Community Asks For And Gets Chaos.

To Be Irish Is To Know That In The End The World Will Break Your Heart.