From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

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

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

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

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

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