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

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.