Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

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

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

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

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.