Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

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

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.