In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.