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

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.