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

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

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.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.