Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.