There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Genius is a rising stock market.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.