Leadership Consists Not In Degrees Of Technique

As A Child Growing Up In The Precincts Of Wealth, And Later As A College Student, Newspaper Reporter And Resident Of New York's Upper East Side, I Got Used To Listening To The Talk Of Financial Killings And Sexual Misalliance That Animates The Conversation Of The Rich And The Familiars Of The Rich.

Label Celebrity A Consumer Society's Most Precious Consumer Product, And Eventually It Becomes The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Packaging Of The Society's Art And Politics, The Framework Of Its Commerce, And The Stuff Of Its Religion.

I Sometimes Think That The American Story Is The One About The Reading Of The Will.

History Is Not What Happened 200 Or 2,000 Years Ago; It's A Story About What Happened 200 Or 2,000 Years Ago.

The Survival Of American Democracy Depends Less On The Size Of Its Armies Than On The Capacity Of Its Individual Citizens To Rely... On The Strength Of Their Own Thought.