I do the best with what exists.

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.