The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. What do we worry about? We worry about our schools. We worry about our public recreational facilities. We worry about our law enforcement and our public housing. All of the things that bear upon our standard of living are in the public sector.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.