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

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

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

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.