The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

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

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

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