You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory followership and an educated morally grounded leadership.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society and act in accordance with that decision only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Unfortunately corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

We judged that a sudden disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy with lower equity prices further downward pressure on home values and less access to credit for companies and households.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.