Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.