When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

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

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.