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

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.