“Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics”
“To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.”
“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.”
“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
“The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.”