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

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. What do we worry about? We worry about our schools. We worry about our public recreational facilities. We worry about our law enforcement and our public housing. All of the things that bear upon our standard of living are in the public sector.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we're now having another one of those speculative episodes.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.