Top 23 Quotes by Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.