There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.