It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.