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

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

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

I do the best with what exists.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.

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.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.