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.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.