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

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

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.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.