All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.