People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.