There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

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

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.