For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

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

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.