Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.