Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

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.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.