I do the best with what exists.

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.