Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.