There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

War remains the decisive human failure.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

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

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.