If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

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

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.