The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

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

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

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

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

The Keynesian Revolution occurred at the moment in history when other change had made it indispensable.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Monopoly or the full control of supply, and hence of price, by a single firm was the ultimate security. But there were many very habitable half-way houses.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that there is a high measure of certainty that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.