The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. |
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. |
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. |
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. |