Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

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