It Was A New Kind Of Class

Somehow, The Fact That More Poor People Are On Welfare, Receiving More Generous Payments, Does Not Seem To Have Made This Country A Nice Place To Live - Not Even For The Poor On Welfare, Whose Condition Seems Not Noticeably Better Than When They Were Poor And Off Welfare. Something Appears To Have Gone Wrong; A Liberal And Compassionate Social Policy Has Bred All Sorts Of Unanticipated And Perverse Consequences.

Neocons Do Not Feel That Kind Of Alarm Or Anxiety About The Growth Of The State In The Past Century, Seeing It As Natural, Indeed Inevitable ... People Have Always Preferred Strong Government To Weak Government, Although They Certainly Have No Liking For Anything That Smacks Of Overly Intrusive Government.

If Your Aims As A Donor Are Modest, You Can Accomplish An Awful Lot. When Your Aims Become Elevated Beyond A Reasonable Level, You Not Only Don't Accomplish Much, But You Can Cause A Great Deal Of Damage.

The Really Difficult Moral Issues Arise, Not From A Confrontation Of Good And Evil, But From A Collision Between Two Goods

Anyone Who Knows Anything About Journalism Knows That Reporters Are Rarely In A Position To Investigate Anything. They Lack The Authority To Subpoena Witnesses, To Cross-examine, To Scrutinize Official Records. They Are Lucky To Get Their Phone Calls Returned.