The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.