Quotes

Jack reminded the audience that over the past 30 years, the inflation-adjusted wage for the average American has not risen. But the rich are

This is true in almost all aspects of modern life; marketing trumps substance. Successful politicians are not those who are the best at ruling,

(Morgan partner George W. Perkins) “preached a gospel of industrial cooperation, contending that small scale businesses depressed wages and retarded technological advance. “What is

The Rent Act was an institutionalized expropriation of private property. Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind

he lied and never knew that he lied, and when it was pointed out to him said that lies were beautiful. He was an

As surely as governments will misgovern and leaders will mislead, there will also always be havens like this (the Crimea in Ukraine) where the

It wasn’t unusual for him to sum up a morning of Senate business as “Bored shitless”.

Oh, I think my destiny is whatever my father wants it to be. When his publisher, Cass Canfield, asked him why he wanted to

I was born poor. For a time, in November and December, once, I went without shoes. I saw my beloved mother suffer from want

“Look”, said my friend, “if a shortstop showed up here and was as obviously not up to the job as Dukakis is, the poor