Patrick Moynihan: “When a security official--officials--tell you something is classified, don't believe them.”

If the present report is to serve any large purpose, it is to introduce the public to the thought that secrecy is a mode of regulation. In truth, it is the ultimate mode for the citizen does not even know that he or she is being regulated.

Everyone can have their own opinions about policy, but there is only one law of numbers and one rule of arithmetic

I dare not ask a World War II pilot veteran to lift this or the rules on ergonomics might be contradicted. But I congratulate you, sir.

This vote is one of an historic handful of congressional votes since the end of World War II. Nothing that Members of Congress do this year or any other year could be more important. He was not simply speaking of trade and the standard of…