Bill Scheinder:

"Lipset was full of rich and intriguing ideas. He also had manynonacademic virtues. One was a clarity of expression. Another was agenerosity of spirit. He warmly encouraged generations of students,colleagues and collaborators, even those of us who wandered away fromacademe. What Lipset created was not a following, exactly. More like anetwork, drawn together by a moderate temperament and shared democraticvalues."