A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

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

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

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

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

The spirit should never grow old.