All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.