Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.

When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.