The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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