Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

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

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.