In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.