"Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indiffer…"

"Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato."

"We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed prac…"

"Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media t…"

"The Athenians made mistakes. Which governmental system has not? The familiar game of condemning Athens for not having…"

"From Aristophanes to Aristotle, the attack on the demagogues always falls back on the one central question: in whose …"

"Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Gre…"

"If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would b…"

"for it is conflict combined with consent, not consent alone, which preserves democracy from eroding into oligarchy."

"What is good for a country? What is the national interest?"