...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.