Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.

Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

I would love to study cultures and people.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.