I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.