Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by people who… - John Kenneth Galbraith

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.