It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.