Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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

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

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

I do the best with what exists.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.