One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.