My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.