“ Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are to… Garry Wills
“ As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ [David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process a… Jane Mayer
“ New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? H.G. Wells
