In economics, the majority is always wrong.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

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