It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.