We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

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

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