By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.