Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

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.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

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.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

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.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.