Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.
I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
