If You Choose The Lesser Of Two

I Have A Consistent Rule: The American People Should Know As Much About The Pentagon As The Soviet Union And China Do, As Much About General Motors As Ford Does, And As Much About City Bank As Chase Manhattan Does.

The Various Social Security Privatization Schemes, Full And Partial, Would Cost Both The 'social' - That Is The Public, Cooperative, Societal - Element Of The Program And 'security' - The Rock-solid Income Guarantee Afforded By The System. It Should Be Rejected.

We Have A Democratic Party That Cannot Defend The American People From The Worst Republican Party In History Because It's A Democratic Party Of War And Wall Street.

Information Is The Currency Of Democracy. It's Denial Must Always Be Suspect.

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.