People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

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.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.