I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.