No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

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