Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

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.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

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

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

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

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

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

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

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

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.