The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

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

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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