Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

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

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.