You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

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

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.