A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence..

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence..

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they def….

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osam….

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing..

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transfor….

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness tha….

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity..

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking i….

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way..

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes..

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable..

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving th….

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government..

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of ….

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action;….

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and ….

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to….

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He tak….

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it..

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you..