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

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.